The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 83
And when Bellah had put them all on you would have taken her for a gentleman dressed in green velvet, lined with white satin.
Who acts: you · What happens: put, take, dress, line · To what, where: Bellah, gentleman, green velvet
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 put | advmod |
| 3 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 put | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 gentleman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gentleman | det |
| 16 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl:agent |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gentleman | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 velvet | case |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 velvet | amod |
| 20 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dressed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lined | punct |
| 22 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 satin | case |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 satin | amod |
| 25 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lined | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | Bellah | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset they=Goal | |||||
| 2 | take | would · perfect | you | Bellah | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | a gentleman not said here | green velvet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | line | participle | you not said here | with white satin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with satin=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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